What do you call a sale at your house of items that you have?

[MissInformation]

If I'm going out to shop, I always refer to it as going yard sale-ing. It's silly to call it a garage sale when the people don't even have a garage. Of course, once I had a strange little thought that it would be funny to go to a yard sale and sort of gesture in a vague way and ask "How much"? and when they give me a price, pay them and then get a shovel out and pretend I'm going to dig up their yard to take home... but then, I'm just odd.

Heidi

[Billfred]

For the most part, it's called a yard sale around here. But if you call it a garage sale, nobody will look at you funny.

[Brandon Martus]

Garage Sale .. or Yard Sale. Close tie.

Estate Sale if I'm dead.

[VGMasterShadow]

Random Sale, because I have random stuff.

[Alex Pelan]

Tag sale, most definitely. Obviously, I had to poll everyone I knew at school, and pretty much everyone who was born and grew up here called it a tag sale, whereas the non-natives called them yard or garage sales. Go figure.

[JakeGallagher]

Seems to me that Tag Sale is losing, and I'm willing to bet most of the votes are from Elgin's friends...I think you were wrong on that one, Dr Clock.

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Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Garage Sale .. or Yard Sale. Close tie.

Estate Sale if I'm dead.

[/EDIT]

Nuff said.

[Ashley Weed]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

For the record, for the most part here in CT the following is true.

Tag Sale = Selling things at your house with tags on items as prices (so people don't ask you how much junk costs every 5 seconds).

Garage Sale = When it rains, you then call your tag sale a garage sale, cause that's where you have to frantically move the items and hope that people still come to it.

Rummage Sale = Church Tag Sale - Features specials like fill a paper bag with items for 5 dollars.

Estate Sale = Sale of items for people who died, usually handled by a private estate sale firm on behalf of the family..

Yard Sale - eh.. it's used in CT, but Tag Sale is more prevalent.

Flea Market = When you pay about 10-50 dollars at a public place to rent a table and/or spot to sell personal items hopefully at the end of the day making back that money, plus extra..


Wow.. I have no life...
But, with the warmer weather, Tag Sailing season is upon us, and I have to go find more junk to sit on shelves, and collect dust!! w00t.

Before now, I had never in my life heard of a "tag sale" around here we have rummage/yard/garage sales.

In addition on special occasions when a whole town has a yard sale and lots of houses participate we call them "all around town days (sales)".
... just another for the list

[Alaina]

Well, I voted for Yard Sale because people primarily set up the sales in their yard.
A garage sale would be selling stuff out of your garage.
I've never heard of a tag sale.
And if a group of several households get together for one big event, then it's a rummage sale.

[JohnBoucher]

From the Urban Dictionary....

1. tag sale
An east coast version of a garage sale. A sale put on by one or more houses in a neighborhood in which you sell belongings no longer used in the house.

Every time my dad sees a sign for a tag sale, he buys a whole lot more c*** that no one wants.

[Lisa Perez]

Silly geese, it's garage sale

[Conor Ryan]

I call it an Ebay Auction.

But Garage sale works for me too, Yard Sale just doesn't sound right.

[Ian Curtis]

Generally its a yard sale, though yardsale and garage sale can be used interchangeably. Tag sales are these big things were they have all these clothes (which usually don't sell).

[Michelle 236]

Most definately TAG SALE.

[Bill_Hancoc]

Its Garage sale.>>>>>>>>>>>You sell unused tools, old lawn and garden equipment, and rusty metal things that are sitting in your garage, that somebody may think they can fix or sell for more at their garage sale.

And if anybody is from the Clarkston, Ortonville area you should know about the Whoppie Bowl (large orange building) which was the next largest flea market to the Dixieland flea market and some may know about the person who has the year-round garage sale and I belive that this is their primary income source.

[JoeXIII'007]

When one thinks about it, you can't call it a yard sale because you are not selling your yard, same goes with a garage sale. Tag sale, well you aren't just selling tags, so you can't call it that either. But we do anyway.

Generally to me, its a yard/garage sale, and if there is one within bikeriding distance, I go to it. There have already been many this year, and one of them had an old Mac Laptop for $15. Unfotunately, no power adapter.